Sarah Crossan
1) Breathe
Author
Pub. Date
2012
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Description
The world has no air. If you want to survive, you pay to breathe. But what if you can't? And what if you think everything could be different? Three teens will leave everything they know behind in Sarah Crossan's gripping and original dystopian teen novel of danger, longing, and glimmering hope that will appeal to fans of Patrick Ness and Veronica Roth.
National Book Award Finalist Kathleen Duey called Breathe "An amazing story! Sit down.
...2) Being Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2020
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Description
I am not who I say I am,
and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.
I am a girl trying to forget.
She is a woman trying to remember.
Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there – and she mistakes Allison for an old friend...
and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.
I am a girl trying to forget.
She is a woman trying to remember.
Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there – and she mistakes Allison for an old friend...
3) Being Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.
4) Solo una
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery.
5) Breathe
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"In a barren land, a shimmering glass dome houses the survivors of the Switch, the period when oxygen levels plunged and the green world withered. A state lottery meant a lucky few won safety, while the rest suffocated in the thin air. And now Alina, Quinn, and Bea--an unlikely trio, each with their own agendas, their own longings and fears--walk straight into the heart of danger. With two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, they leave the dome....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After discovering that her married lover has been killed in an accident, estate lawyer Ana Kelly, alone and undone, seeks friendship with the person who she once thought of as her adversary and opposite, but who is now the only one who shares her pain--Rebecca, her lover's widow.
7) One
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Tippi and Grace. Grace and Tippi. For them, it's normal to step into the same skirt. To hook their arms around each other for balance. To fall asleep listening to the other breathing. To share. And to keep some things private. The two sixteen-year-old girls have two heads, two hearts, and each has two arms, but at the belly, they join. And they are happy, never wanting to risk the dangerous separation surgery. But the girls' body is beginning to fight...
8) Resist
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Alina, Quinn, and Bea, now outlaws and outcasts, make their way to the last enclave of the Resistance but once there, they discover they can count on no one but each other and may, in fact, have to betray those they considered allies.
9) Moonrise
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Description
With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
Author
Description
Toffee ist die Geschichte eines Mädchens, das geht, aber nicht weiß, wohin.
Viel zu lang ist Allison bei ihrem Vater geblieben. Viel zu lang hat sie den Schmerz und die Schläge ausgehalten. Sie landet irgendwo in einem kleinen Dorf an der See. In einem Haus, von dem sie denkt, es sei verlassen, trifft sie auf Marla, eine alte demente Frau, die hier ganz allein wohnt. Diese hält das Mädchen für ihre Jugendfreundin Toffee und Allison, die es...
11) Resist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
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Description
This sequel to Breathe will "keep readers on the edge of their seats" as the YA dystopian adventure comes to its thrilling conclusion (Booklist).
Bea, Alina, and Quinn are outlaws. They started a rebellion and have been thrown out of the pod—the only place where there's enough air to breathe. Bea has lost her family. Alina has lost her home. And Quinn has lost his privileged life. Now they must struggle to survive as refugees...
Bea, Alina, and Quinn are outlaws. They started a rebellion and have been thrown out of the pod—the only place where there's enough air to breathe. Bea has lost her family. Alina has lost her home. And Quinn has lost his privileged life. Now they must struggle to survive as refugees...